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killed more than 3000 people and is plotting to kill us again -- attack us again. we have made progress. the al qaeda leadership has been damaged. we have worked closely with yemen to live like major blows against leaders. we have saved american lives. we know that the vast majority of muslims reject al qaeda. it is clear that al qaeda increase in six to recruit individuals without known terrorist affiliations in the middle east and africa and other places to do their bidding. that is why i have directed my national security team to develop a strategy that addresses the unique challenges. we must communicate clearly to moslems round the world that al qaeda offers nothing against a backdrop division of misery and death, including the murder of fellow muslims. to advance that progress, we seek new beginnings with muslim communities around the world. we will engage in mutual interest and respect to work together to fulfill the aspirations that all people share to get an education, to work with dignity, to work in peace and security. that is what america believes in. t
killed more than 3000 people and is plotting to kill us again -- attack us again. we have made progress. the al qaeda leadership has been damaged. we have worked closely with yemen to live like major blows against leaders. we have saved american lives. we know that the vast majority of muslims reject al qaeda. it is clear that al qaeda increase in six to recruit individuals without known terrorist affiliations in the middle east and africa and other places to do their bidding. that is why i...
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none of us know about it. until you do it, you will not know the types of the variables that will matter. a lot of focus on the financing model, we wonder what that is about. if you get below the financing and talk about what that 24 hours is like for an individual or what it is like for that individual who significantly has something on the autism spectrum. what is it like for them when they cannot get a fair cuts. when you get below the financing, you have to think about what it is like. i think people get the little they afraid of that. can you keep a meaningful benefit and keep it solvent long term? that is what we want. adverse selection, you are going to cover everybody? we are going to have episcopal big enough to enjoy that. we do not have the overnight -- overhead cost for this. there are things that you do not need to do. it attracts the middle-class population because we had the financing peace. we had to get the money for the premium. one population is kids in college. one was to make sure we do so
none of us know about it. until you do it, you will not know the types of the variables that will matter. a lot of focus on the financing model, we wonder what that is about. if you get below the financing and talk about what that 24 hours is like for an individual or what it is like for that individual who significantly has something on the autism spectrum. what is it like for them when they cannot get a fair cuts. when you get below the financing, you have to think about what it is like. i...
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that they're looking forward to us using the time between now and when we reconvene to have a legislation well underway to reconciliation. we are trying to reconcile two bills that are good bills. there are real good things in the senate bill. great things in the house bill. what we have to do now is meld these two together and do this in such a way that the american people will feel that the time and imaging in this effort has been worth while. >> thank you very much. we are particularly delighted with the leadership of the president of the united states. without his leadership, without his vision, without his encouragement we would not be right on the verge right now of passing this historic legislation which will be placed, i think, in its rightful place, alongside social security, medicare and now health care for all americans. any of my colleagues wish to add? any question? >> madam speaker, as you know, a number of moderates said that the senate legislation can't change too much and still get 60 votes in the senate. so what is is it critical for members to see? >> we want our final
that they're looking forward to us using the time between now and when we reconvene to have a legislation well underway to reconciliation. we are trying to reconcile two bills that are good bills. there are real good things in the senate bill. great things in the house bill. what we have to do now is meld these two together and do this in such a way that the american people will feel that the time and imaging in this effort has been worth while. >> thank you very much. we are particularly...
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we didn't just use the term leadership. we use the term officer ship. if you look on page six and seven of our report we say specifically what we think happened here. we believe that some of the signs were clearly messed or they were ignored. i can't tell you which, and i can't go further than that because of the nature of the restrictions that -- the information that is in the restricted annex. but there is no doubt in my mind or secretary west's mind that there are issues here and if there were not so we would not have said that to the secretary defense. with regard to the intelligence matters -- we did not do the intelligence review. the president had already outlined and authorized a review and we were giving specific guidance do not interfere. with that said, mr. chairman, since the review team began this action there's been a number of things in the public domain that tell us there is agreement that the dissemination of information process needs to be improved and there was a release on friday by the fbi that talked about the improvements that are
we didn't just use the term leadership. we use the term officer ship. if you look on page six and seven of our report we say specifically what we think happened here. we believe that some of the signs were clearly messed or they were ignored. i can't tell you which, and i can't go further than that because of the nature of the restrictions that -- the information that is in the restricted annex. but there is no doubt in my mind or secretary west's mind that there are issues here and if there...
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it is a great victory for us. i know it has been agonizing for the past few days or few months waiting for this decision, waiting and waiting and waiting but a it is an amazing thing to have lived through it for years and be told by the bureaucrats at the federal election commission you can't do that. you have no first amendment rights and i think today is a wonderful day to tell the folks over at the federal election commission that they work for the people. and the people don't work for them. so i'm really honored with this outcome. it is a tremendous victory for the first amendment and for our organization and thank you very much. i'm happy to take any questions. >> first amendment rights for the corporations and labor unions -- >> you know, we're going to have a chance to read the opinion. i'm sorry. i don't know exactly what the opinion says just yet. but it is a great day for every person in america whether you own stock in a company, whether you run a mom and pop grocery store, and by the way, when we took
it is a great victory for us. i know it has been agonizing for the past few days or few months waiting for this decision, waiting and waiting and waiting but a it is an amazing thing to have lived through it for years and be told by the bureaucrats at the federal election commission you can't do that. you have no first amendment rights and i think today is a wonderful day to tell the folks over at the federal election commission that they work for the people. and the people don't work for them....
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and bruce gave us 60 days. i thank strobe for lending him to us. and we concluded quite simply that america's basic national security interest were at stake in these two countries. this was not enough where the vietnam posed no direct threat to the american homeland. it was not iraq, where saddam hussein had attacks on our countries, including pakistan itself has been planned. the people out there said they would do it again, very clearly, as the near miss on christmas day demonstrates. in fact, this particular person was not trained, and pakistan does not change the fact that the inspiration for all of this comes from al qaeda and al qaeda's leadership is based in the remotest areas on the afghanistan/pakistan border. so we concluded without any dissent that this was a national security issue. we could not walk away from it. the second question was therefore, what do we do about it? the answer has been laid out in a serious of speeches and public states by president obama march 27th and december of last year were the two major statements. but ther
and bruce gave us 60 days. i thank strobe for lending him to us. and we concluded quite simply that america's basic national security interest were at stake in these two countries. this was not enough where the vietnam posed no direct threat to the american homeland. it was not iraq, where saddam hussein had attacks on our countries, including pakistan itself has been planned. the people out there said they would do it again, very clearly, as the near miss on christmas day demonstrates. in...
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[applause] >> let us pray. o holy one, who we called by different names because we are a diverse people, you are the same one that calls us to live in this great city together. a city where hundreds of languages are spoken. a city where residents, one- fourth of them all, were born outside of the united states. a trail blazing city shows annise parker to be the mayor. in this -- a trail blazing city that shows annise parker -- that show chose annise parker to be r mayor. even the homeless and hungry are blessed. give us all here is that here each other. voices that speak to truth and love. mines that make sense out of confusion. parts that move us beyond mere tolerance to embrace of our differences -- parts -- hearts that move us beyond mere tolerance to embrace our differences. made the lord lift the light of his countenance upon you and give you peace, both now and forever more. amen. >> amen. [applause] ♪ >> congratulations, mayor. >> ♪ did you hear this message wherever you stand calling every woman cal
[applause] >> let us pray. o holy one, who we called by different names because we are a diverse people, you are the same one that calls us to live in this great city together. a city where hundreds of languages are spoken. a city where residents, one- fourth of them all, were born outside of the united states. a trail blazing city shows annise parker to be the mayor. in this -- a trail blazing city that shows annise parker -- that show chose annise parker to be r mayor. even the homeless...
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it seems to most of us it is not capitalism to -- when government uses billions and billion was taxpayer money to prop up a few well-connected firms. that leads me to two questions. one, has the treasury informed any of these financial giants that we'll not follow too big to fail policies in the future and secondly, do you think we should limit the salaries and excessive salaries and bonuses that are being talked about even today in any of these firms that got taxpayer bailout funds? >> that was a thoughtful question and you asked the right question. in a financial crisis, you faced this choice. you can let it try to burn itself out and let the damage spread to all sorts of innocent victims or you can act to prevent it. knowing that acting to prevent it created the risk that in the future they expect the government to step in and save firms from the consequences of failure that. is at the heart of strategy and financial crisis. to stand back and let it burn is irresponsible. it happened in the great depression and almost to the country. the moral just pragmatic, fair choice and this shou
it seems to most of us it is not capitalism to -- when government uses billions and billion was taxpayer money to prop up a few well-connected firms. that leads me to two questions. one, has the treasury informed any of these financial giants that we'll not follow too big to fail policies in the future and secondly, do you think we should limit the salaries and excessive salaries and bonuses that are being talked about even today in any of these firms that got taxpayer bailout funds? >>...
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they remind us, let's look. they remind us, let's look. or are they developing@@@@@@raáv deepen our commitment to ensuring al qaeda cannot exploit those territories for attacks on our homeland. then just a couple matters that are left over from our report. we have talked a number of times about balancing the need between civil liberties and national security, and we have to get that balance right. ties and national security. we have to get that balance right. it is absolutely important. we recommend a civil liberties and board located in the white house which would look at the implications, whatever laws are passed come from a civil liberties. of view. the board was staffed in 2006. congress further strengthen it in 2007. we have an independent agency outside the white house. the board held numerous sessions with the fbi director among others, on terror surveillance, and other topics. çbut the board has disappeared. it has been dormant since that time. we have now a massive capacity in this country to develop data on individuals. the bo
they remind us, let's look. they remind us, let's look. or are they developing@@@@@@raáv deepen our commitment to ensuring al qaeda cannot exploit those territories for attacks on our homeland. then just a couple matters that are left over from our report. we have talked a number of times about balancing the need between civil liberties and national security, and we have to get that balance right. ties and national security. we have to get that balance right. it is absolutely important. we...
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these are actors who are known to us or suspected to us to be very dangerous folks. a real good question here is sure that this be brought in? i would remind people, again, since our memories are short, that when i was in the white house, there was a great deal of pressure from congress and advocacy groups to which will downed the list -- to whittle down the list. there were susan cries about the number of names of the list, mistaken identity -- were cries about the number of names on the list, mistaken identities. host: is the list smaller today than it was when you are in the white house? guest: the master tide this is bigger now. when i left, we were closer to 500. that is now higher. there was always an attempt to refine the list and make sure you did not have wrong names on there, bad names. part of it is the commercial interests. part of it is you do not want to unnecessarily burdened travel for the american public. it is important for u.s. commerce. host: how often did you look at that list? when you are in the white house, your position was similar to john br
these are actors who are known to us or suspected to us to be very dangerous folks. a real good question here is sure that this be brought in? i would remind people, again, since our memories are short, that when i was in the white house, there was a great deal of pressure from congress and advocacy groups to which will downed the list -- to whittle down the list. there were susan cries about the number of names of the list, mistaken identity -- were cries about the number of names on the list,...
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bridgett more difficult for us to check it. -- more difficult for us to check it. [unintelligible] we have a good idea of how to stop guys trying to blow up a plan over detroit. the technology is there. we need to make sure that the people who need to use the technology can use it properly. and we do to help? >> thanks for your comments. i think there will be budget implications. my view is, and i want to go back to a point that the senator asked me, the privacy vs. security issues that kids raised in connection with a whole body scanners. we do look at privacy issues from the get go. ultimately, the question is, what do we need to do to protect the security of the flying public even at the take to deal with privacy. security is the number one concern. one thing that this committee and the congress can't do in addition to that is setting public expectation. we are doing and will continue to do everything we can do to prevent this kind of yvette from ever happening again. from whatever source anywhere around the world, there is no one silver bullet. yes we can push
bridgett more difficult for us to check it. -- more difficult for us to check it. [unintelligible] we have a good idea of how to stop guys trying to blow up a plan over detroit. the technology is there. we need to make sure that the people who need to use the technology can use it properly. and we do to help? >> thanks for your comments. i think there will be budget implications. my view is, and i want to go back to a point that the senator asked me, the privacy vs. security issues that...
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and bruce gave us 60 days. i thank strobe for lending him to us. and we concluded quite simply that america's basic national security interest were at stake in these two countries. this was not enough where the vietnam posed no direct threat to the american homeland. it was not iraq, where saddam hussein had attacks on our countries, including pakistan itself has been planned. the people out there said they would do it again, very clearly, as the near miss on christmas day demonstrates. in fact, this particular person was not trained, and pakistan does not change the fact that the inspiration for all of this comes from al qaeda and al qaeda's leadership is based in the remotest areas on the afghanistan/pakistan border. so we concluded without any dissent that this was a national security issue. we could not walk away from it. the second question was therefore, what do we do about it? the answer has been laid out in a serious of speeches and public states by president obama march 27th and december of last year were the two major statements. but ther
and bruce gave us 60 days. i thank strobe for lending him to us. and we concluded quite simply that america's basic national security interest were at stake in these two countries. this was not enough where the vietnam posed no direct threat to the american homeland. it was not iraq, where saddam hussein had attacks on our countries, including pakistan itself has been planned. the people out there said they would do it again, very clearly, as the near miss on christmas day demonstrates. in...
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you can send us an e-mail or tweet us at . next phone call. caller: i think our president is doing very well. if we wanted joe biden as president, he would be president. i like the idea that our president is intelligent. he is not a puppet, like the last eight years. i think he is doing what he is supposed to be doing. host: james traub? guest: i guess i would agree in general. he believes he could be a good president. i believe this is almost a desirable alternative. he is a very knowledgeable bright guy. i do not think he has those qualities of character. i do not mean to say that he has no character at all that americans look to have as their president. i think obama for all the mistakes he has made, has proved that people have a deep sense of comfort up and we did with him as a person. biden is more of a hyperactive person. -- deep sense of comfort with him, as a person. host: franklin, new hampshire. caller: mr. traub i know you denounced the history of vice- president cheney, and you believe that he was just awful. if you would be kind e
you can send us an e-mail or tweet us at . next phone call. caller: i think our president is doing very well. if we wanted joe biden as president, he would be president. i like the idea that our president is intelligent. he is not a puppet, like the last eight years. i think he is doing what he is supposed to be doing. host: james traub? guest: i guess i would agree in general. he believes he could be a good president. i believe this is almost a desirable alternative. he is a very knowledgeable...
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they have attacked us and are still attacking us. this administration cannot wish that reality away and i don't think they intend to. the threat cannot be negotiated away. but we must do is acknowledge this reality and work to vote and interrupt the attacks and destroys the organizations that are at war with us. it is a different kind of war but real nonetheless. and this hearing can help us get insight into the failure that occurred and what we need to do in the future but until the administration and congress fully acknowledge the reality of the enemy i don't think we will be fully effective. the work of the 9/11 commission unified our nation behind the idea that preventing act of war by traditional law enforcement techniques would not be effective. they declared we should treat this danger with a new understanding of how war. the truth is that the administration intends to view this conflict wrongly as a law enforcement act matter now. retreating from that national decision i thought we have reached. now we have a policy that prev
they have attacked us and are still attacking us. this administration cannot wish that reality away and i don't think they intend to. the threat cannot be negotiated away. but we must do is acknowledge this reality and work to vote and interrupt the attacks and destroys the organizations that are at war with us. it is a different kind of war but real nonetheless. and this hearing can help us get insight into the failure that occurred and what we need to do in the future but until the...